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Can i say "quest it" (imperative)?

I'm Italian and I'm trying to create an english name for a cultural club, whose mission is "seeking for knowledge together". I need a short, evocative, memorizable yet correct phrase, and I wonder if "QUEST IT" could satisfy all these requirements. Or if it is a nonsense for native english. Thanks for your help.

Re: Can i say "quest it" (imperative)?

Originally Posted by kurt19xx

I'm Italian and I'm trying to create an English name for a cultural club, whose mission is "seeking for knowledge together". I need a short, evocative, memorizable yet correct phrase, and I wonder if "QUEST IT" could satisfy all these requirements. Or if it is a nonsense for native English ​speakers. Thanks for your help.

"Quest" isn't used very often as a verb but there's no reason why it shouldn't be used in the imperative. It really depends whether you want everyone to immediately understand the meaning of the club's name without having to check a dictionary. Note that your mission should be "seeking knowledge together" (not "seeking for knowledge").

Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.

Re: Can i say "quest it" (imperative)?

Originally Posted by kurt19xx

When you say "odd" do you mean "wrong" and "not appealing"? Or may "quest it" have some chance to sound "archaic", "adventurous" or "intriguing"?

It does sound odd because, exactly as SoothingDave said, we normally "quest for" or "quest after" something. So it would more naturally be "Quest after it" although that sounds like you're saying "The word QUEST comes after the word IT".

Between "wrong, not appealing, archaic, adventurous, intriguing", I would have to choose "wrong", I'm afraid.

Having said that, the titles of companies and groups are frequently ungrammatical (Toys R Us, for example, would be very odd in normal English even if they had spelt "Are" correctly).

The simple answer is that you can call your group anything you like - it just depends on whether you want people to understand what the group is about simply from reading the name. If not, you can make it as unclear or intriguing as you like.

Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.